It was apparent about 30min later way it was so hazy as it started to rain. at first it was only a little we did not think that it wold affect our swim in one of the the complexes 3 swimming pools. It did not take long for the rain to pour down in bucket fulls - our first experience of a monsoon rain. It was pretty cool the way the rain drops where hitting the pool surface.
The rain has cleared now and 3 of the children are playing in the pool while I can keep typing outside - still connected to the network that is supplied via the apartment hire.
We have seen a few of the sights here in KL. After settling down and getting ourselves back into the time zones again, we went out as a family to the Bird Park. We caught the train after a walk through the park, and ended up near the national Museum. We had a look - but it was not that interesting for the children with the exception of a few exhibits. The bird park was very nice, although as they say on some of the information websites a little expensive to get in compared to other places in KL. There was an amazing range of birds. Some of the colours where amazing. Here are a few of them.
Whoops!! - forgot to rotate this image
Th highlight of the bird park was the Bird Show - were different birds did different sorts of tricks that they had been taught. Some rode bikes or cars, others arranged shapes, others played ringers. It was great to watch. Here is a short video clip.
Sorry - still have to get it off the camera - it will come.
We caught t a taxi back home again. We organised it via a coupon system that they have over here - were rather than hailing a cab on the side of the road, you go to a counter and they organise it for you. To get back to our apartment they had a fixed price of 20MYR We needed 2 taxis so it cost us 36 MYR. We realised later that this was way to much for what we could have payed - but you live and learn.
The following morning I took the oldest children to the Times Square. We took the taxi and then realised how little it could cost us to get into the city centre. It was only 15 MYR - $5 AUS. On the way out of the square - the taxi coupon place wanted to charge us 30 MYR at first and then 25 MYR - both more than I was prepared to pay. WE caught a taxi from the side of the road and it cost us 18 MYR.
The Theme Park at times square did not open until 12pm, so we had to hours to kill in the shopping centre. It was an easy thing to do as you see in the photo as to the number of floors that it has. Count the escalators.
Whoops - also not rotated
The children and I had a great time at the theme park taking the different rides. The first ride we took was a uncomfortable to say the least for the kids and they did not like it. They where going around in circles at high speed and up and down at the same time. They did not like it and where put off the high intensity activities.The favourite of all of them was the bumper cars. They kept on going on again and again. I took the roller coaster ride - and found it awesome. Going upside down and changing angles while traveling at speed was cool. The full 360 lop-da-loop was just fantastic.
Later in the afternoon we all went down to the Mid Valley Mega Mall - upon recommendation to go there. We planned to do some shopping for items that we needed but found that the prices were not that much cheaper than at home. So we planned to take the markets for out purchases. We had dinner at Popeye's - similar to KFC for those Aussie contacts. The chicken coating certainly tasted better than KFC.
Its to hot to type any more - I'm going for a swim. I just checked the weather conditions for KL at the moment an they are - 31degress with 74% humidity.
Cheers
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